Trending in Asia: Asiana Crash, Apps Made in Asia

7/10/2013 5:00AM

In this week’s Trending in Asia, the WSJ’s Ramy Inocencio talks with Google’s Joyce Hau on search spikes including the crash of Asiana Flight 214, the made-in-China app “Crazy Name That Tune” and the Japanese app “Puzzles & Dragons”.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

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